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...FINAL AWAKENING came when I "snorted" a good sized pinch of heroin. Up to that point, I had, at one time or another, smoked pot, tried LSD, Psylocybin, Mescaline, Dexadrine, Alcohol, and so on ad infinitum. Being head of a drug education group and of reasonable sound mind and body, my motivation was curiousity of a most unmorbid sort--but each new experience left me with the same anti-climax. They were all interesting in one way or another, but nothing to write a book about. And now, preparing a drug education booklet on heroin, I figured it was time...
...first reaction was to call up the mass media and send the news over the wires: EXTRA EXTRA HEROIN RELATIVELY HARMLESS TO IMMENSE MAJORITY OF POPULATION. And then the full irony of it hit. Here I was, a nationally reputable drug expert, praised by physicians and adolescents alike for accuracy and honesty, with a company due for a half-million in sales of drug education to the Army, Navy and schools throughout the country, waking up to the fact that I too, like hundreds of millions of Americans, had been shamelessly duped by a few hundred thousand very vocal...
...understandable if they had done something serious. You know, you expect a cop to go crooked." But is there not a little room for rejoicing that, at least in Des Moines, when a few policemen stray off the line, it is balloons and slingshots they play with instead of heroin and the Mafia...
DRUGS. Anyone found guilty of trafficking in more than four ounces of a substance containing heroin or morphine and who had a previous drug-felony conviction would automatically receive life imprisonment without possibility of parole. The lowest penalty for a trafficker would be from five to 15 years for a first offense involving less than four ounces. Accused pushers would not be allowed bail unless they could prove that they were not a "danger" to the community. That proposal constitutes a substantial hardening of the Nixon-proposed general preventive-detention law, which so far has failed to work very well...
...effort to "avoid history and politics wherever possible," naturally mixes death with lukewarm eggs, bad Saigon traffic, disappointing bar girls, and the other irritations Willwerth keeps counting. But the book brings the war home with fine, straight reportage on the G.I.s, their Galley debates and fraggings, and a heroin network he stumbles upon. When the year is up, Willwerth leaves Viet Nam, wondering whether his journalism mattered...